scissors crises

A form of scissors crisis — An economic crisis caused by price scissors, that is, an unfavourable divergence in the prices paid by a particular group or country for products that it needs as against the prices of the products that it produces.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of scissors crisis
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